New Hard Drives

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~misfit~ said:
Thanks. Does xxcopy work with NTFS partitions?
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xxcopy will not clone the boot files needed by WinXP. But once WinXP is
running it handles NTSF. It's just a better version of xcopy with more switches
so you can be selective about file copy or back-up. It also avoids the
well known "long filename" problem that xcopy may have. It's also faster
than some of the programs that drive manufacturers make available.

See the site for more info:

http://www.xxcopy.com

Virg Wall
 
kony said:
Agreed, but if the user wants the "clone-type" program, it's usually
available for download from the HDD manufacturer's website (the
manufacturer of EITHER HDD, generally it is only necessary to have
that manufacturer's drive in the system, it need not specifically be
the source or the destination drive for the clone-type program to
work).

Dave
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There's a lot of good stuff on the drive manufacturers sites. Everyone
ought to visit them for the latest in available programs. Many will work
on drives of other manufacturers, but some are drive specific.

I just used Seagate's DiscWizard to copy files from a WD 13GB drive to
a Seagate 80GB (ST1300013A). It worked fine but was very slow. It
required that the new drive be Seagate, as it gave drive specific install
information. It did have a generic clone program, but it was not called
by the "Wizard". There were some bugs in printing out the install
directions, as the program suggested. A knowledgeable user could find and
use the stand-alone clone program.

~misfit~ apparantly already had the system boot files on the drive(s), so
xxcopy might be a better choice over the "all or nothing" you get with
clone programs.

Virg Wall
 
V W Wall said:
There's a lot of good stuff on the drive manufacturers sites. Everyone
ought to visit them for the latest in available programs. Many will work
on drives of other manufacturers, but some are drive specific.

I just used Seagate's DiscWizard to copy files from a WD 13GB drive to
a Seagate 80GB (ST1300013A). It worked fine but was very slow. It
required that the new drive be Seagate, as it gave drive specific install
information. It did have a generic clone program, but it was not called
by the "Wizard". There were some bugs in printing out the install
directions, as the program suggested. A knowledgeable user could find and
use the stand-alone clone program.

~misfit~ apparantly already had the system boot files on the drive(s), so
xxcopy might be a better choice over the "all or nothing" you get with
clone programs.
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Actually the drive I will be copying form if I go ahead and do this
currently has two partitions (5 and 15GB respsctively) and dual boots
between 98SE and XP/P. My girlfriend has a few games she still enjoys that
won't run on XP, only 98.

I have Norton Ghost running on another (XP) machine. I guess I could put
both drives on the secondary IDE temporarilly and copy that way?
 
If a drive is being used just as storage and not as for the operating system
to run on, then 5400 is fine.
 
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